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title	date	description	tags
Import commits from one git repo to another	2018-09-25	How to take commits from one git repo and bring them into another	git

The trick

In an ideal world there should never be a need to do this, but here is how to do it properly if you ever walk into this bizarre problem. This command imports commits from a repo in the ../masterfiles folder and applies them to the repository inside the current folder : {{< highlight sh >}} (cd ../masterfiles/; git format-patch –stdout origin/master) | git am {{< /highlight >}}